Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes ("Re: Bug#34136: dpkg: dpkg:
../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4'
failed."):
> On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 07:47:20PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Does one of these packages have a dependency on itself ?
>
> Apparently:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:01]:~$ grep-dctrl -e -FPackage -sPackage,Depends \^\
> libggi2\$ \
> /var/lib/dpkg/available
> Package: libggi2
> Depends: libggi-target, libc6, libggi2, libgii0, libncurses4
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:02]:~$
>
> But dpkg shouldn't dump core on that. It should just cry out and die.
I agree. However, that makes this a known bug. A workaround for the
project (until I fix the bug) is to remove the errant dependency.
Ian.
